Crossfire vs. R520

[imported_DaveA]

im wondering as to why you need 2 ati cards to get 14xAA when you only need one nvidia card and rivatuner to get 16xAA.

 

[Zebo]

Get free 16x+ AA just play with your LCD in non-native res.

 

[trinibwoy]

Originally posted by: DaveA
im wondering as to why you need 2 ati cards to get 14xAA when you only need one nvidia card and rivatuner to get 16xAA.

Because Nvidia hardware has native support for Supersampling AA and the ability to combine Multi and Super sampling modes. 8xS is pretty good in some older titles but I don't think even SLI'ed G70s will be able to push 16x.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Bleh
Pretty much always gonna be that the latest and greatest from ATI/NVIDIA will be 2x as powerful as the previous generation top of the line so this is where SLI makes no sense what so ever.

which probably means 2xx850xts will be slightly faster than a single r520 but withOUT the new [ati] "features".

but then wait and see . . .

i doubt either nVidia or ati will crush their newborn multicards "solution"

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Originally posted by: Insomniak
I speculate that one of them will definitely be faster than the other.

Insomniak, I bow to you in Laughter. Great line.

I would imagine that the Crossfire R520 over R520 over Crossfire X800's (price, electricity, and probably performance) over X800

But as Insomniak says above, at this point I will only confirm that one will be faster than the other ... if they aren't the same speed.

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33

Originally posted by: Insomniak
I speculate that one of them will definitely be faster than the other.

Insomniak, I bow to you in Laughter. Great line.

I would imagine that the Crossfire R520 over R520 over Crossfire X800's (price, electricity, and probably performance) over X800

But as Insomniak says above, at this point I will only confirm that one will be faster than the other ... if they aren't the same speed.

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[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: IamTHEsnake
At high resolutions past 16x12, the effect Anti-Aliasing is less and less apparent. I read this somewhere, though I forget where....

I think AF will still be good though, haha.

how many people have monitors capable of better than 1600x1200? and AA definitely improves things at 1600x1200.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Yeah but from what I can tell they were showing off the decode ability of the thing. I dont know many people who are going to run out and purchase a 500+ dollar decoder for HD DVD especially when you wont see titles show up until the end of the year.

Seems like an odd series of events imo for ATI at Computex IMO.

i predict internet movie/tv pirates will be encoding in h.264 by the end of the year